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Data Debrief: Context, Culture & Clarkson's Farm
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- Driven by Data: The Podcast
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- Jun 25, 2026
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- 2910
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of the Data Debrief, the companion show to Driven by Data: The Podcast, where hosts Catherine Dowden-King and Kyle Winterbottom unpack Tuesday's episode, share what's been on their minds, and explore the realities of leadership, culture, and capability across the data and AI landscape. This week, Catherine and Kyle reflect on the conversation with Justin Borgman, co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Starburst, diving deeper into why AI adoption keeps stalling at scale, the real cost of pointing powerful tools at the wrong problems, and what it means to build differentiated business capability rather than just better infrastructure. They cover: Why Justin's refreshingly candid starting premise — that messy, fragmented data is simply the reality most organisations are working in — cuts against the vendor instinct to promise a clean, unified solution, and why that honesty lands differently coming from a SaaS founder The recurring pattern of businesses spending two to three years consolidating data into a single source of truth, only to arrive at the same "so what?" question — and why Starburst's founding premise of using data where it lives challenges the orthodoxy of centralisation as a prerequisite for value The context problem that no platform solves on its own: how the same number pulled from the same source can mean two completely different things depending on interpretation, and why that ambiguity at enterprise scale can quietly corrode trust in data across an entire organisation Justin's observation on where AI is delivering the clearest, most demonstrable value right now — coding — and what that signals for how skill sets in software development, data science, and adjacent technical roles are likely to evolve faster than most organisations a…